Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqkqk/deepest-ocean-hole-japanResearchers aboard the ship Kaimei hold the 40-foot-long piston corer used to extract sediment from the seabed. Photo: Courtesy of JAMSTEC. Scientists have drilled the deepest-ever ocean hole off the coast of Japan, breaking the record from the Mariana Trench in 1978 as they try to gain new insights into the region’s earthquake history.Mon, 31 May 2021 12:57:00 +0200vice-com-uk-9ea0e7b82e847d459231e54a1e7a5e2cvice-com-uken35.6831 139.809NuclearEnergyManMadeDisastersNaturalDisastersMariana TrenchFukushima DaiichiOcean DiscoveryVICE World News20210531125700https://www.explica.co/these-japanese-scientists-just-beat-the-record-for-the-deepest-hole-drilled-in-the-ocean-8023-meters.htmlOff the coast of Japan, in the Pacific Ocean, a Japanese research vessel has broken a peculiar record. On May 14, the ship Kaimei set the record for the deepest ocean hole drilled by man . Nothing more and nothing less than 8,023 meters for scientific reasons. Actually, two records have been set scientists aboard the Kaimei ship.Fri, 28 May 2021 08:34:00 +0200explica-330092bd81dec14a0f2cba11c57f793eexplicaen35.6831 139.809NaturalDisastersNuclearEnergyManMadeDisastersMariana Trench20210528083400https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-drill-the-deepest-hole-26200-ft-below-oceanA team aboard the research vessel Kaimei, stationed off the coast of Japan, drilled a hole in the seabed of the Pacific Ocean deeper than any other seabed drilling operation in history, from the team. On May 14, the team abord the Kaimei lowered a 40-meter-long Giant Piston Corer (GPC) almost....Wed, 26 May 2021 17:02:00 +0200interestingengineering-c3b8001a2d29fda76c62ce6435fc73a4interestingengineeringen35.6831 139.809NaturalDisastersMariana Trench20210526170200